{"id":24,"date":"2007-07-03T14:12:04","date_gmt":"2007-07-03T02:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mindspacesolutions.com\/blog\/?p=24"},"modified":"2007-07-03T14:32:06","modified_gmt":"2007-07-03T02:32:06","slug":"a-great-discussion-on-media-literacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mindspacesolutions.com\/blog\/24\/a-great-discussion-on-media-literacy\/","title":{"rendered":"A Great Discussion on Media Literacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the spirit of the blogosphere philosophy of ‘filtering’ and helping the cream rise to the top, I thought I wanted to mention\u00a0the\u00a0podcast\u00a0discussion\u00a0on\u00a021st Century Learing #30: Media Literacy<\/a>.\u00a0The\u00a0shownotes\u00a0describe\u00a0it\u00a0as\u00a0“A amazing conversation with With Adam Kenner and Sheryl Rivera from Horace Mann School and the Action Coalition for Media Education New York Chapter<\/a>. This is a must listen for educators and parents in our wired world”.<\/p>\n

It covers the following topics (apologies for the formatting – WordPress can’t seem to indent bullet points (without making them blockquotes), so this is the best I can do):<\/p>\n

How and why teach Media Literacy to children.
\nUnderstanding how you are being manipulated by advertising and marketing.
\n– Also how this is constantly changing and evolving.
\nHow media changes our view and reactions to world events.
\nAsking “Who produced this and what benefit do they get from giving it to me?”
\n– Conflicts of interest. E.g. MSNBC owned by GE – who earns a lot more from Military Defense contracts than their MSNBC news branch.
\n– None of the media companies are providing news as a public service. They are doing it to make money. Even PBS now.
\nResearch showing excess of ‘mindless media’ results in lack of involvement.
\n– Results in depressed, anxious, sad, alone.
\nBob McCannon (sp?) collecting media literacy research:
\n– Just teaching media literacy makes children more aware, but does not change attitude or behavoiur.
\n– Changes behaviour when combined with parental involvement and reduced media diet.
\nSo a three-pronged approach to improving attitudes and behaviour around media:
\n– Media Literacy Education
\n– Parental Involvement
\n– Reduced Media Diet
\nHow to encourage parental involvement.
\nReactions of children. They love it. “Why didn’t you tell us about this earlier?”
\nThe hype around online predators.
\n– 90% of molestations are by people the family personally knows.
\n– So should be educating people to look out for this.
\n– So why so much hype \/ focus on the other 10% (not all of which are online based).
\n– What does traditional media have to gain by perpetuating this hype?
\nImplication of larger politcal issues around media.<\/p>\n\n\n